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Thompson, Professor Robert Henry Stewart


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 PP/RHT

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Thompson, Professor Robert Henry Stewart

Date(s): 1931-1996

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 7 boxes

Name of creator(s): Thompson | Robert Henry Stewart | 1912-1998 | biochemist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CBE, MA, DSc, DM, BCh, FRS, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS. Biochemist; Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical School, University of London, 1947-1965; Secretary-General International Union of Biochemistry 1955-1964; Director, Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London, 1965-1976; Wellcome Trust Trustee, 1963-1982, and Deputy Chairman, 1978-1982; Chairman Chemical Defence Advisory Board, Ministry of Defence, 1968-1975.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to Robert Thompson's research and career, 1931-1996, including personal and biographical; articles, reprints, reports, minutes, correspondence and photographs re development of British Anti-Lewisite during World War II, effects of nerve gases in warfare and civil strife, 1960s-1990s, and multiple sclerosis research; notes of lectures on biochemistry, 1952-1975; minutes, reports, etc, of International Union of Biochemistry, 1955-1980; papers re role in Royal Society and Wellcome Trust; biographical writings on R T Grant, FRS (1892-1989), Sir R A Peters, FRS (1889-1982), and G P Wright, (1898-1964).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

The catalogue to this collection has not yet been fully converted to electronic form: for detail, and to order material, see hard-copy list available in the Wellcome Library. Copies of the catalogue are available on request.

Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Scrapbook of degree certificates, early letters of appointment and bound copies of all RHST's reprints still held by family See also: A and M sources leaflet: War, Medicine and Health after 1918.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
International agencies | Organizations
Military medicine | Medical sciences
Multiple sclerosis | Diseases | Pathology
Neurology | Medical sciences
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Autoimmune diseases
Biochemistry

Personal names
Peters | Sir | Rudolph Albert | 1889-1982 | Knight | biochemist
Thompson | Robert Henry Stewart | 1912-1998 | biochemist

Corporate names
International Union of Biochemistry
Royal Society
Wellcome Trust

Places